Crown Store fixes

Robbie575 · June 2015

First off, the Crown lessons for your mount. I mean, seriously. You pay approximately $10 to get just ten days and 2,500 gold's worth in training? Not worth it. I'd rather come back everyday than pay $180 per mount to max out. Though it goes to about $120 if you buy the Crowns in packs of 5,500. Make it cheaper. $10 for 60 of any training, not just Speed, Stamina, or Carrying Capacity.
Next, the fact that things come out once a month. It's easy enough to get more things out faster, especially with my next point.
Make items from older Elder Scrolls games (like the Ebony armor from Oblivion or armor the Dragonborn in the commercials for Skyrim wears as costumes) available. The models are already there, it'd be easy enough to port them.
Add a couple of higher-priced options for Crowns (like 25,000 for $100, a lot more since people are dropping so much more money all at once, or even for $150) and a purchase option for an entire year of ESO Plus (non-refundable, even if you get rid of the game).
Also, make the potions that you get from the crown store a daily or weekly refill of them, to a max of 20 (like if someone uses 17, refill it from 3 to 20, and make them worth like 1 gold each so they don't just accumulate and sell them), because paying $10 for potions you go through in less than an hour is absolutely ridiculous.
Bring the items from the loyalty program back. Not as a loyalty program, but in the Crown store. I feel like they had the tigers and whatnot early for months, we should have access too for us console players.
Dragons. I know this game is 1,000 years before Skyrim, and thousands of years after the last of the dragons disappeared, but there aren't really any horses with flaming hooves around either. Like a baby dragon mount that hasn't learned to fly yet, or Alduin's spirit escaping and wreaking havoc 1,000 years before he would actually escape, and his dying words being that he would one day get out and destroy the world.
Try to partner with other game/movie studios, like Nintendo or Universal Studios, to get mounts that cost a little more, like a Yoshi or Blue the Velociraptor (from Jurassic World) for the full 5,500 or maybe 4,500 Crowns, and give part of the profits to them (they're willing, trust me). If nothing else, make a facsimile of them, like maybe a Raptor mount that doesn't look exactly like theirs, maybe feathered to be dino-accurate. What can I say? I want a raptor to ride that isn't a Guar. Yeah, it seems like a bit of a sellout, but if you made it cost $40, then it seems like they'd be rare enough that people couldn't really care that it doesn't fit in the Elder Scrolls universe, since the person paid forty freakin' dollars for it.
Lastly, for now, is to not add bags or capacity upgrades. That would make things too complicated, and adds a serious pay-to-win image to it. If you're going to upgrade a horse's max capacity, to like 5 per level for 60 levels, which would make sense since in the end your character can carry more than your horse, then make it free. Don't charge for that. That's the kind of thing that made the subscription model fail. Look at Neverwinter. Who wants to pay $150 for an extra race, a couple mounts, and a couple extra bags of carrying space (talking about the Dragonborn Legends Pack for 7,500 Zen and the Champion of the North Pack for 6,000 Zen) for a free-to-play game? RIDICULOUS!!! Look to your fellow MMO's to see a do-and-don't list.

Robbie575 · June 2015

Another couple of ideas:

Whoever makes the decisions on what does and doesn't go on the Crown store or in-game should have to read every single forum post online to see what the players actually want. If they want something added, changed, or removed enough, they'll go online to talk about it. And you're in this for the players, not for your money.
Add an ESO:TU game app and an ESO:TU forum app. One to run to load forums and to post while on games, the other with things like: a map; a widget with what's active in the PvP campaigns; an inventory to check when not in the game and chatting about it to friends; a mail system so if you're somewhere like Starbucks with your buddy who plays, and if you want to shoot him an item you got after he looks through your inventory on your phone and his equipment on his phone, he can see what would work best for his character and you can send it to him; and a guild widget to edit your guild and add/kick members. Make the forum and game apps separate because trying to load the forums and all of your stuff from the game would just crash the app. Make these apps available for ALL THREE major platforms of smartphone: iPhone, Android, AND Windows. Windows phones are on the rise, and it's easier to get the apps out to all three at once rather than have to deal with people whining and complaining and end up having to put the apps out later anyways. May as well make them early and make the players happy before they can get upset.
Eventually, do what the trailers and the promotions all said: Make ALL of Tamriel explorable. Make parts of The Black Marsh deadly to EVERYONE who isn't an Argonian or who have a certain amount (a lot) of poison resistance.
Make arrows effective at any range, jut make the damage decrease with range after a certain distance, like whatever the maximum distance is now should be the distance where the damage starts going down. Otherwise archers on the battlements are ineffective during PvP.
Let us find out what happened to the Dwarves after The Battle of Red Mountain. Have a couple of them found, and when that expansion is released, make the Dwarves (Dwemer) a playable race.
Make the Snow Elves (Falmer) a playable race, as a few of them that were melted out of ice before the rest of their race went mad, as an expansion that deals with them getting revenge on the Nords for what happened in the war with Ysgramor and the Five Hundred Companions.